North Carolina becoming the new Mississippi

3:58 PM,
Oct. 18, 2013

Written by

Gary Soldow, Ph.D., Asheville

These are heady and exciting days for North Carolina. I had no idea when I moved here seven years ago from New York City that this state would receive such national notoriety. For example, not too long ago, there was an editorial in the New York Times: "The Decline of North Carolina." More recently, Sen. Richard Burr made the front page of the New York Times when he largely dismissed the debt ceiling, arguing that most of our debts from could be paid with the money being saved from the government shutdown. And, then, CNN deemed Rep. Mark Meadows as the "architect of the ...